Help! A collision! A collusion! Poetry crashes in to photography.
My visual art pieces draw from the traditions of urban landscape photography, collage, mural, and graffiti art. I begin with a digital photo I’ve taken. Then, via Photoshop, I add other images I've generated, e.g., old ads (now in the public domain) or black & white images I’ve photo-copied from 1930’s school textbooks, hand-colored, and scanned back in. Then, I add small bits of my own text— mini-poems, if you will.
My main background in the arts has been poetry. I'm the author of six collections of poems and have received two National Endowment Grants in Literature. I want the word elements that I place in a photograph to function first as visual components and of course to work in linguistically interesting ways too. But after many years as a writer (I have three books of short stories too), I realize what I love most are IMAGES. I love to touch 'em and squeeze 'em; I love to dance between 'em, torque 'em, freeze 'em, nibble 'em, and blast 'em to smithereens.
To learn more about my publications, see www.nancevanwinckel.com
An interview with me about my process and aesthetics appears here:
http://dianelockward.blogspot.com/2012/02/nance-van-winckel-and-art-of-photoem.html
My visual art pieces draw from the traditions of urban landscape photography, collage, mural, and graffiti art. I begin with a digital photo I’ve taken. Then, via Photoshop, I add other images I've generated, e.g., old ads (now in the public domain) or black & white images I’ve photo-copied from 1930’s school textbooks, hand-colored, and scanned back in. Then, I add small bits of my own text— mini-poems, if you will.
My main background in the arts has been poetry. I'm the author of six collections of poems and have received two National Endowment Grants in Literature. I want the word elements that I place in a photograph to function first as visual components and of course to work in linguistically interesting ways too. But after many years as a writer (I have three books of short stories too), I realize what I love most are IMAGES. I love to touch 'em and squeeze 'em; I love to dance between 'em, torque 'em, freeze 'em, nibble 'em, and blast 'em to smithereens.
To learn more about my publications, see www.nancevanwinckel.com
An interview with me about my process and aesthetics appears here:
http://dianelockward.blogspot.com/2012/02/nance-van-winckel-and-art-of-photoem.html
© PhoToems by Nance Van Winckel